I just ran across an interesting feature of the Safari 3 Beta for Windows. Apple has included a copy of Lucida Grande and Lucida Grande bold. But instead of dropping them into the main Windows font directory, where all apps could make use of it, the fonts are under the \Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\. So, sites that set Lucida Grande as the first font in their styles will look different in Safari than the other browsers in a Windows environment. Add the font smoothing capabilities built into Safari, and you can see some visible differences in text rendering on many sites across the Web when comparing IE, Firefox and Safari on Windows.
Safari’s Font Rendering on Windows
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[...] the Safari installation includes the fonts Lucida Grande and Lucida Grande Bold in Program FilesSafariSafari.resources. My first thought was that this was for side-by-side [...]
[...] thing that I am particularly excited about is that Safari for Windows finally brings fonts that were previously only available on Macs, to Windows. For example, my own blog uses the Lucida Grande font, a very elegant and popular font among sites [...]
I think is a useful information and hope it will help me a lot while working with Safari. May be Apple will resolve this issue soon.
http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com